Article
The high prevalence of the diabetic patients with a mutation in the mitochondrial gene in Japan.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Sept 1994
Otabe S, Sakura H, Shimokawa K, Mori Y, Kadowaki H, Yasuda K, Nonaka K, Hagura R, Akanuma Y, Yazaki Y
Abstract excerpt
Recently, an A to G transition at position 3243 in transfer ribonucleic acidLeu(UUR) [the 3243 base-pair (bp) mutation] originally found in patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes has been identified in patients with diabetes and deafness. T...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Female
- Glucose Tolerance Test
- Glyburide
- Humans
- Insulin
- Japan
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation